In Reply to: Re: Re Gödel posted by Ted Smith on January 5, 2007 at 15:02:52:
> It's just a pet peeve of mine that people (not necessarily you)
> misuse Gödel's work to imply that science has limits. It certainly
> does have limits, but Gödel's work and it's extensions are very
> specific and not nearly as general as people seem to believe.I see, Goedel's approach works for formal systems, meaning any system that can be completely described by finite sequences of letters and axiomatic rules. These sequences are transformed into numbers (Goedelization) and then one can state properties on these equivalent numbers using arithmetics.
Now I look like a nerd :-)
Bests
Roberto
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Follow Ups
- Re: Re Gödel - robertopisa 15:26:42 01/05/07 (1)
- There are worse things than nerds :) [nt] - Ted Smith 15:30:22 01/05/07 (0)